KIA Tigers won a lawsuit against foreign player A for damages.

A foreign mercenary A, who failed the medical test after being found to have hidden his history of using drugs after recently signing a contract with the KIA Tigers, filed a lawsuit for damages against the club, but the club finally won.카지노

The Gwangju District Court's Civil Affairs Department 13 (Chief Judge Chung Young-ho) announced on the 6th that it has rejected a plaintiff's claim for damages worth 500 million won filed by a U.S. professional baseball player against the KIA Tigers.

Earlier in December 2023, A signed a contract with KIA as a foreign player under compensation conditions that included a down payment, a basic annual salary of $300,000, and incentives. However, in January of the following year, KIA notified A of the termination of the contract due to his history of using cannabis, history of using psychotropic drugs (adderals), use of banned drugs such as amphetamines in Korea, and failure to pass medical checks.

However, A filed a lawsuit for damages based on the fact that KIA lost $1.2 million (1.753 billion won) as it illegally terminated its contract and failed to receive down payment and annual salary.

Mr. A said, "The cancellation of the contract constitutes an unfair refusal of performance. Before the start of the baseball league, the contract was canceled and the opportunity to sign another contract was deprived, and a total of $1.2 million should be compensated," he said.

In response to A's claim, the KIA team countered, "A did not notify him of his habitual inhaling of marijuana and taking prohibited drugs, and he did not approve the results of a medical check."

"Although the plaintiff has no record of being charged with drug-related crimes and smoking marijuana is legal in some U.S. states, it is not the United States but South Korea where the plaintiff signs a contract and works," the court said. "Considering that this is subject to criminal punishment, the contract would not have been completed if the plaintiff had informed the smoking history before signing the contract."

The court then said, "A seems to have said that he inhaled hemp every day for eight years. He also did not deny this fact," and judged, "He did not notify it in advance even though he took drugs containing amphetamines that were banned from bringing into the country to treat chronic diseases."

"In principle, drugs that the plaintiff has taken for a long time to treat certain medical conditions are not allowed to be produced, distributed, and sold in Korea, and it is reasonable to see that long-term domestic banned drugs are subject to prior notice," the court said.

Finally, the court said, "In summary, the plaintiff violated his obligation to notify in advance, and medical checks on the plaintiff found defects. Although he received medical checks in the United States, the termination of the contract was justified because there was room for physical defects to be found after reviewing the above test results."

In addition, A claimed that KIA leaked his contract to the media, but the court refused to admit that there was "no evidence."